Museum of South Texas History — Attraction in Edinburg

I was pleasantly surprised by this museum. The staff in this place have a deep knowledge of the history of the Rio Grande Valley.

This is a great place for solo to family history buffs and they even have a great puppet show that also provides a nice story of a family that resided in the area.

What blew me away was the deep history of the indigenous people who resided in the area for generations and explored the people who tried to conquer or assimilate with them. Plus it also honors a Marine in one section of the museum that I encourage people to learn about.

While I could only be there for 2 hours, if you take the time to read through the displays, you will likely spend approximately 4 hours there as rushed to take pictures at the end...

I LOVE this museum. The designer did such a great job making it immersive and interactive. You can really imagine what life was like and how it progressed in the RGV (puro 956!). From roaming tribes to early settlers onto the industrial revolution and so on.

Also, for you ghost hunters, the jail is a nice touch of history and the supernatural. I don't believe in ghosts or spirits but being there truly made me uncomfortable. Maybe it was the lighting or maybe it was something else, but we only stayed for a few minutes before deciding to skedaddle.

I hope y'all enjoy this place as much as we did. There might also be a mystery to solve in the jail but we couldn't figure it out and as mentioned earlier, we didn't stay...

This museum tells the South Texas story, from the geologic prehistory to the present day. It doesn’t just display a bunch of artifacts, it connects them all with a coherent story, told extremely well. I tried to read just about everything in the museum, and I spent about four hours there doing so. Of course not everybody will want to spend that much time there. But in my opinion it was time well spent. You might want to take a sweater in with you, because the air conditioning works very well. I found it very useful to have my smart phone with me, which I used as a flashlight and a magnifier because some of the items would have been hard to read otherwise, since my eyes are not as good as...